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Stephen J. Andriole, Ph.D.

Steve Andriole’s career has focused on the development, application and management of information technology and analytical methodology to complex business problems. These problems have been in government and industry. Dr. Andriole has addressed them from academia, government, his own consulting company, a global insurance and financial services company, and from the unique perspective of a venture capitalist.

Government

Dr. Andriole was the Director of the Cybernetics Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) where he managed a $50M program of research and development that led to a number of important scientific and technological advances in the broad-based information, decision and computing sciences. While at DARPA, Dr. Andriole supported the development of spatial data management and multimedia systems, decision-support systems, computer-aided simulation and training systems, and intelligent technology-based command & control systems. Dr. Andriole’s research program at DARPA seeded MIT’s Architecture Machine Group, which evolved into the internationally-known Media Lab. The program

also contributed to the development of the ARPANET (which became today’s Internet & World Wide Web), interactive training simulations, such as SIMNET, and a whole host of artificial intelligence-based advances. Dr. Andriole has consulted with the National Academy of Sciences, the National Science Foundation, and various offices and agencies of the U.S. Department of Defense.

Industry

Dr. Andriole’s career in industry has taken several forms. He’s been a Chief Technology Officer at a Fortune 50 company, a CTO at a public venture capital company and private equity venture fund, and an entrepreneur. Dr. Andriole was most recently the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. where he was responsible for identify- ing technology trends, translating that insight into the Safeguard investment strategy, and leveraging trends analyses with the Safeguard partner companies to help them develop business and marketing strategies. Dr. Andriole was also a Principal at TL Ventures, the Philadelphia region’s largest private equity fund. While at Safeguard, Dr. Andriole worked closely with many companies at all stages of their development. He was also the primary Wall Street contact for Safeguard, frequently interacting with the analysts that covered SFE. Dr. Andriole was the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President for Technology Strategy at CIGNA Corporation, a $20B global insurance and financial services company, where he was responsible for the enterprise information architecture, computing standards, the technology research & development program, and data security, as well as the overall alignment of enterprise information technology investments with CIGNA’s multiple lines of business. As an entrepreneur, Dr. Andriole founded International Information Systems (IIS), Inc., which designed interactive systems for a variety of corporate and government clients. IIS specialized in business requirements analysis and prototyping, the design of user-computer interfaces, and software systems evaluation. IIS also performed technology investment risk assessments for government and industry. He is also the founder of TechVestCo, a new economy consulting consortium that identifies and leverages technology trends to help clients optimize business technology investments, and the co-founder of Ascendigm, LLC.

Academia

Dr. Andriole is currently the Thomas G. Labrecque Professor of Business Technology at Villanova University where he teaches and directs applied research in business/technology alignment and pervasive computing. He is formerly a Professor of Information Systems & Electrical & Computer Engi- neering at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he conducted applied research in information and software systems engineering, principally through the Center for Multidisciplinary Information Systems Engineering, which he founded & directed. The MISE Center generated over $5M in external funding, principally from industry, the federal government and founda- tions. While at Drexel, and as part of the MISE Center’s R&D program, Dr. Andriole – with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation – designed and implemented one of the nation’s first totally online Master’s program in information systems. This program continues today with some significant repeat industrial customers, including CIGNA and MetLife, as well as a large number of independent students. The program was featured in the nationally broadcast PBS special net.learning. Dr. Andriole was a member of the faculty of George Mason University as a Professor and Chairman of the Department of Information Systems & Systems Engineering. He was awarded an endowed chair from the university becoming the university’s first George Mason Institute Professor of Information Technol- ogy. The ISSE department was home to 30 full-time and part-time professors and had an annual external-sponsored research budget of $3M. Several research centers were established in the department including the Center for Computer Security and the Center for Software Engineering.

General

Dr. Andriole is a prolific author and speaker. Some of his 25 books include Interactive Computer-Based Systems Design and Development (Petrocelli Books, Inc., 1983), Microcomputer Decision Support Systems (QED Information Sciences, Inc., 1985), Applications in Artificial Intelligence (Petrocelli Books, Inc., 1986), Information System Design Principles for the 90s (AFCEA International Press, 1990), the Sourcebook of Applied Artificial Intelligence (McGraw-Hill, 1992), a (co-authored with Len Adelman) book on user interface technology for Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. entitled Cognitive Systems Engineering (1995) and a book for McGraw-Hill

entitled Managing Systems Requirements: Methods, Tools & Cases (1996). He has recently published articles in Software Development, IEEE Software and the Cutter IT Journal. Overall, he has published over 100 articles and papers. He is also the author of a new 15-part series for Datamation on business/technology alignment. This series, which began in February 2001, examines how large, medium and small businesses can optimize their investments in information technology. He is currently developing two new books: the first, TechVesting: Leveraging Information Technology in the Digital World, will describe a methodology for investing in information technology from three perspectives: creators of technology, users of technology and technology investors. This book will appear in 2005 and will be published by the Wharton Press/Prentice Hall Financial Times. Some of his consulting clients have included General Electric, Magnavox, CIGNA, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Merck & Co., Computer Sciences Corporation, Air Products & Chemicals, GlaxoWelcome, the Soft- ware Productivity Consortium, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. He serves on a number of public and private corporate boards and on the Board of the Ben Franklin Technology Center of Southeastern Pennsyl- vania. Dr. Andriole received his B.A. from LaSalle University in 1971 and his Masters and Doctorate degrees from the University of Maryland in 1973 and 1974. His masters and doctoral work was supported by a National Defense Education Act fellowship. His Ph.D. dissertation was funded by DARPA. Details about Dr. Andriole’s career can be found at www.andriole.com.